From pycyn@aol.com Sun Oct 29 15:05:07 2000 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@egroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-6_2_1); 29 Oct 2000 23:05:07 -0000 Received: (qmail 8094 invoked from network); 29 Oct 2000 23:05:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m2.onelist.org with QMQP; 29 Oct 2000 23:05:05 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r16.mail.aol.com) (152.163.225.70) by mta1 with SMTP; 29 Oct 2000 23:05:05 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r16.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v28.32.) id a.5e.28be3cc (658) for ; Sun, 29 Oct 2000 18:04:58 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <5e.28be3cc.272e071a@aol.com> Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2000 18:04:58 EST Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: weekday names To: lojban@egroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Windows AOL sub 41 From: pycyn@aol.com X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 4741 I don't remember the details, but JCB once got into trouble for calling Sunday "seven-day," rather than "one-day." As I recall, he - - like others stuck in Judeo-Christian culture but not in Judeo- Christian groups -- had Sunday and Sabbath confounded, though he must have known about Sabbatarian Christians (Seventh-Day Xs -- X being most fundy types), who insist that the Lord's Day (day when God rested, etc. etc. ) is the seventh (Saturday) and thus the day for church services. Christians switched to the first toward the end of the first century when they were busy splitting form Judaism (and it from them, come to that) and picked Sunday for there big services (Day of the beginning of Creation, day of resurrection as per Russian, day of Pentecost, i.e., the start of the Church). Islam picked a new one, going with Friday rather than Monday (why those were the choices exactly, I don't know, nor why Monday lost out -- they both have goddesss connections that should have mde them undesirable -- but maybe that was what tipped the scale. Sunday got totally firmed up by the conquest over the Religion of Uconquerable Sun in the fourt century -- Constantine and Julian). Anyhoo, American (by their calendars at least) go with Sunday as the first, following the ancient pattern, and note that a week has two ends, that hppen to be next to eachother in sequence -- as you would expect from a ring.